About the book: 1970 / The name of the writer Alexander Zuev (1896-1965) is well known to readers, especially people of the older generation. He began his literary activity in the first years after the revolution. This book includes the best stories of Alexander Zuev - “The World is Signed”, “Taibola”, “The Tale of Old Winter”, the stories “Seeing Off”, “In the Forest by the Sea”, created by the author in the twenties, thirties and fifties. In them, the author shows that period in the history of our country when revolutionary transformations invaded the centuries-old way of life of peasants, fishermen, Pomors - people of harsh and courageous labor. The author tells the story in his own way, with those details that make something historically distant a living, exciting artistic document of the era even today. A. Zuev tells about everything first-hand, he went to the places he described, and closely communicated with the people who became the prototypes of his heroes.